Stow Away

[Jaster Awaud]

This mission to the Unknown Region was somewhat of an important one, and as such it required the Viceroy of the Trade Conglomerate to get on the Transport Freighter and go along for the ride. The "Ryloths Heart" was a newer ship, but Jaster would have rather travel with his fleet to the Core Worlds. Being as they were reassigned to protection detail of some... Delicate Negotiations deep in the Unknown Region, this was what the company could spare. Leaving Commenor in the rear view screen, the Frigate was stacked with Food Supplies for one of their colonies, and as such Jaster expected the live stock to give off some life sign readings. However, he did not expect to see what happened next.

The man was sitting in his office that was provided by the caption of the vessel, paperwork was the homework for adults after all. Filling out the requisition reports for weapons and arms to be transported from one place to another, he was interrupted by the Communications officer. "Viceroy, you have got to see this."

Jaster was known somewhat among the company of a man with good sense of humor, a deadly Mandalorian Worrier needed to have such after seeing all he had. So he just tapped his coms twice to confirm his responce and got up to see what creature escaped and injured the crew. Taking the stares from the crew quarters to the cargo bay, he opened the door to be greeted by two crewmen, the caption, and a young boy standing in the entrance of the Doorway. He looked to the Caption, "Is he-"

"Stow Away." The caption interupted.

Looking down at the boy with his red eyes and sluggish posture, it had been a long night. He looked to the crewman to his right who looked like he found the boy, "How di-"

"Cargo bay Charlie 75, kid was eating some of the food packets, gave him a Dinner Insta-Ration." The Crewmen answered before Jaster could finish his sentence.

It was seriously too ear.... 'wait' He thought to himself, 'what time was it?'... He needed to concentrate though, the boy in his hold. He looked at the boy again. Then moved his eyes to the other Crewman, "Who el-"

"No one else, we called out as soon as John found the kid, we all know how you enjoy kids." Again they interrupted him and answered his question without knowing what he was about to say. Jaster stayed quite, and after a second or two the crewman spoke up, "Well sir?"

Jaster groaned, "I just thought you all were mind readers so I asked the question in my head, but none of you know so ill ask the kid," His glowing red eyes and armored head and body shaped with metal plates that looked glued to his body looked more seriously at the boy. "What are you doing on my Ship?" The Caption was about to interject, but Jaster just put his hand on his head, "This ship, I meant this ship." He really needed sleep.

[member="Lasky Rynn"]

 

[Uhtred Kjartan]

The ship was nice, it seemed to have served some sort of special purpose was what Lasky thought as he wandered through the cargo bay, stealing food to eat here and there. He normally wouldn't do this, but this time his credits were somewhat nonexistent, and he couldn't hop aboard a planet hopper to get him to a nearby planet. Although the food sufficed his starvation, he felt wrong for stealing, and would somehow pay the owner of this ship back. As he wandered, he startled the livestock aboard the ship, giving away his presence to a nearby security guard.

The guard called out to him as he tried to run, but almost an instant later he felt a knee in his back, pinning him down. He thought he'd be going to some sort of brig aboard the ship, but he ended up on the bridge. He waited, then waited, and waited. There, a crewman gave him some sort of ration of food and asked for someone named [member="Jaster of Clan Awaud"] to make an appearance on the bridge.

Moments later, a towering man with red eyes appeared, confused as ever, asked him "What are you doing on my- I mean, this ship. This ship." Lasky took note of this slip up and pondered on a response for a bit. About a minute of silence went past and he said, uncaring as ever:

"Ran out of credits and couldn't get on a planet hopper. Normally, I'd pay to use some sort of civilian transport, but... this one seemed interesting. What an interesting storage of livestock and food. Thanks for that, by the way."

 

[Jaster Awaud]

Jaster was not angry at the kid, the UTC had Refugee Centers across the Galaxy. People did not stow away because they wanted to, so when the young man explained what he was doing here, the old timer understood. He knelt down and looked the kid in his face, the red demon like eyes of his helmet dimmed as to not scare the kid. His mechanical voice echoed out as his real voice could be heard from this close proximity. "You jumped on a random ship, bound for an unknown destination, and with no credit to your name." The Caption of the vessel signed as she realized where this was going, and turned to the rest of the crew and went back to work. Jaster let out a chuckle as he found the kids bravery, or whatever is was as entertaining, "Got to say young man that sure is gutsy, well I must say, luck is not on your side if your flying with us."

The rest of the crew went back to work, except for the man who found him, he stayed with Jaster and the kid. "We are not taking the short cut."

Jaster nodded at the guy, "Your right we are not taking that short cut," He looked back at the kid, "You ever been to the Unknown Region of space, galactic Wild West of the Core Worlds?"

[member="Lasky Rynn"]

 

[Uhtred Kjartan]

In all honesty, Lasky couldn't care less about the outcome of the situation, and it showed in his body language. If he was sent to some sort of prison, it'd just give him something to do. If he was let dumped on a nearby planet, even more things to do. He was always thinking steps ahead, into the future. The short term didn't matter to him, it was all about the long term outcome. So when the crewman said, "We are not taking the shortcut." he almost cut his entire sentence in half by simply responding with:

"Okay."

The man they had summoned to make an appearance wasn't intimidating, much wasn't to Lasky, but he seemed to have some sort of understanding for his situation, and he appreciated that of him. It was nice to have some sort of adventure beginning in his life, and possibly anew ally for future times he'd got in trouble or something. He then broke the silence with

"You ever been to the unknown region of space, galactic Wild West of the Core Worlds"

He responded, simply with:

"Nope, but it seems interesting."

[member="Jaster of Clan Awaud"]

 

[Jaster Awaud]

Jaster was running on little sleep so he was just delusional at this point. The Unknown Region was filled with possibilities and random chance, thus was the reason he liked to visit so often. The kid, [member="Lasky Rynn"] seem unfazed about the way Jaster looked. The old Mandalorian was use to people being a little guarded at the sight of his containment suite and the demon like eyes, so it was nice to see the kid a little more thick skinned.

He offered a hand to the kid to allow him to walk over to the view port that was currently filled with the lights of Hyperspace. "I don't think I have introduced myself, the name is Jaster Awaud, Viceroy of the United Trade Conglomerate, whats yours?"

 

[Uhtred Kjartan]

Something about the crew of the ship and the man engaging in conversation with him wasn't scary, it was somewhat welcoming. They didn't want him here, but they'd tolerate his presence for the time being. They weren't evil, so they weren't going to even consider killing him or just launching him into space like some twisted minds across the galaxy would do. The man before him offered his hand for Lasky to take, to walk with him, but he simply walked alongside him to the viewport to see the ship in hyperspace. He introduced himself as [member="Jaster of Clan Awaud"] of the United Trade Conglomerate. Before much quiet time passed, Lasky introduced himself as

"Lasky Rynn, no titles, no affiliation to anyone just yet."

And that was that. He met someone new for the day.